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np to the house, was noticeable. While these families were the owners and occupants of this 

 property, it was named hy them Pilgrims' Farm. Subsequently Pilgrims' Farm passed into the 

 hands of Mr. James Beatj', one of the representatives of Toronto in the House of Commons 

 in Canada, who made it an occasional summer-rotreat, and called it Glen Grove. It had been 

 at one period known as the MacDougal farm, Mr. John MacDougal, of York, having been its 

 owner from ISOl to 1S20. Mr. MacDougal was the proprietor of the principal hotel of York. 

 Among the names of those elected to various local offices at the annual Town-meeting held in 

 1799 at " the city of York," as the report in the Gazette and Oracle ambitiously speaks, that of 

 Mr. MacDougal appears under the head of " Overseers of Highways and Eoads and Pence- 

 viewers." He and Mr, Clark were elected to act in tliis capacity for " the district of the city 

 of York." That they did good service we learn from the applause which attended their labours. 

 The leading editorial of the Gazette and Oracle of June 29, 1799, thus opens : " The public are 

 much indebted to Mr. John MacDougal, who was appointed one of the pathmasters at the last 

 Town-nioeting, for his great assiduity and care in getting the streets cleared of the many and 

 dangerous (especially at night) obstructions thereon ; and we hope," the writer says, " by the 

 same good conduct iu his successors in the like office, to see the streets of this infant town vie 

 with those of a maturer age, in cleanliness and safety." In the number of the same paper for 

 July 20, (1709), ]\Ir. MacDougal's colleague is eulogized, and thanked in the following terms : 

 "The inhabitants of the west end of this Town return their most cordial thanks to Mr. Clark, 

 pathmaster, for his uncommon exertions and assiduity in removing out of their street its many 

 obstacles, so higlily dangerous to the weary traveller." Mr. McDougal was the first grantee of 

 the farm immediately to the south of Glen Grove (lot number three). 



On high laud to the right, some way off the road, an English-looking mansion of brick with 

 circular ends, v/as another early innovation. A young plantation of trees so placed as to 

 shelter it from the north-east winds, added to its English aspect. This was Kingsland, the home 

 of Mr. Huson, likewise an immigrant from the West Indies. It was after svards the abode of Mr. 

 Vance, an Alderman of Toronto. One or two old farm houses of an antique New Jersey style, of 

 two storeys, with steepish roofs and small windows, were then passed on the left. Some way 

 further on, but still in the lov;- land of the irregular ravine, another primitive rustic manu- 

 factory of that article of prime necessity, leather, was reached. This was "Lawrence's 

 Tannery." A bridge over the stream here, which is a feeder to the Don, was sometimes 

 spoken of as Hawke's bridge, from the name of its builder. In the hollow on the left, close 

 to the Tannery, and overlooked from the road, was a cream-coloured respectable frame-house, 

 the domicile of Mr. Lawrence himself. In his yard or garden, some hives of bees, when 

 such things were rarities, used always to be looked at with curiosity in passing. 



The original patentees of lots six, seven, eiglit and nine, on the west side of the street just 

 here, were four brothers, Joseph, Duke, Hiram and John Kendrick, respectively. They all had 

 nautical proclivities; or, as one who knew them said, they were, all of them, "water-dogs ; " 

 and we shall hear of them again in our chapter on the early marine of York harbour. In 1799, 

 Duke Kendrick was about to establish a potashery on number seven. His advertisement 

 appears in the Gazette, of December 21, 1799. It is headed "Ashes! Ashes! Ashes!" The 

 announcement then follows : "The subscriber begs leave to inform the public that he is about 

 to erect a Pot-ash upon lot No. 7, west side of Yonge Street, where he will give a generous price 

 for ashes ; for house-ashes, ninepenee per bushel ; for fxeld-ashes, sixpence, delivered at the 

 Pot-ash." It is then added : " He conceives it his duty to inform those who may have ashes to 

 dispose of, that it will not be in his power to pay cash, but merchandize at cash price. Duke 

 W. Kendrick. York, Dec. 7, 1799." In the year following, Mr. Allan advertises for ashes to be 

 delivered at pot-ash works in York. In the Ga'Mte for November 29, ISOO, we have : "Ashes 

 wanted. Sevenpence Halifax currency per bushel for house-ashes will be given, delivered at 

 the Pot-ash works, opposite the Gaol ; and fivepence same currency, if taken from the houses ; 

 also, eightpence New York currency for field-ashes delivered at the works. W. Allan. York, 

 21st November [ISOO]." 



We now speedily arrived at the commencement of the difficult descent into the valley of the 

 great west branch of the Don. Yonge Street here made a grand detour to the east, and failed 

 to regain the direct northerly course for some time. As usual, wherever long inclined planes 

 were cut in the steep sides of lofty clay banks, the condition of the roadway hereabout was, 

 after rain, indescribably bad. After reaching the stream and crossing it on a rough timber 



